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MU IS RAGK FOR PIANOS.

No. 352,300. Patent ed'Nov. 9, 1886..

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES F. OONOVER, OF NEvV YORK, N. Y.

MUSIC-RACK FOR PIANOS.

SPECIPIGATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 352,300, dated November 9, 1886.

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, Janus F. Oonovnn, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Music-Back for Upright Pianos, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The object of my invention is to provide a new and. improved music-rack for upright pianos, which rack is out of the way entirely, does not niar or in any way disfigure the instrument, and which can be adjusted for use very easily and rapidly.

The invention consists in the construction and combination of parts and details, as will be fully described and set forth hereinafter.

Reference is to he had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both the figures.

Figure 1 is a detail crosssectional view of part of an upright piano provided with my improved raclgwhich is shown lowered. Fig. 2 is a rear view of the rack, the same being raised.

The front A of the uprightpiano case is provided with an opening, B, the edges of which are chainfered, beveled, or otherwise ornamented, and said opening can be closed by a panel, .0, which forms the rack, and is provided at its bottom with an outwardly-projecting grooved ledge, I), on which the musicsheets can rest. The said panel or rack may have a plain or ornamental face, and may be made of the solid wood or fret-work, &c.

Two fiat bars. E, are hinged to the back or rear side of the rack a short distance above the bottom edge, one bar E beingat each end of the rack, and the inner ends of said bars are hinged on blocks F, secured on the inner surface of the piano-front at the ends of the bottom edge of the opening, so that when the bars E are swung down they can rest on from the back of the rack or panel. Each arm G has alongitudinal slot, H, into which slots pins J pass, which project from the sides of brackets K, secured on the back of the piano front, at the side edges of the opening B.

\Vhen the rack is lowered, its top is held by the pins J, and its lower part is held by the, bars E, the rack being held a short distance in front of the front of the case and at a slight inclination. When the rack is not to be used, it is pressed upward, and is guided by the slots H on the arms G. The rack or panel first passes through the opening B, and then against the back of the front of the case A, the bars E resting against the hack of the panel.

The rack fills the opening 13 like an ordinary piano-panel, and the rack is behind the front A, as shown in Fig. 1.

As the rack, when lowered, is inclined and some distance from the front of the piano, as shown, the top part of the sheet-music cannot touch the front of the piano-case.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, isj j 1. The combination, with an upright-piano case having an opening in its front, of a rack or panel, bars hinged to the said rack or panel near its bottom, and to the piano-case, and of curved slotted arms secured to the panel and guided by pins passed through the slots in said arms, substantially as herein shown and described.

2. The COlllblllitilOll,Wlhll the piano-front A, having the opening B, of the panel or rack 0, having the ledge D, the bars E, hinged to the rack or panel, the blocks F on the back of the piano-front, to which blocks the bars E are hinged, the curved slotted arms G on the panel or rack, the brackets K, and the pins J, projecting from the same,-substantially as herein shown and described. 7

JAMES F. GONOVER.

\Vitnesses:

HUGO KRAEMER, BERNARD .T. KELLY. 

